Quotes About Moshe Sharett

A reprisal of this magnitude... has never been carried out before. I paced back and forth in my room perplexed and completely depressed, feeling helpless.

Israel would not do that, both because we cannot afford to be accused by the world of aggression and because we cannot, for security and social reasons, absorb in our midst a substantial Arab population.

I imagine that the intention is to get rid of them. The interests of security demand that we get rid of them.

I am against intervention by a foreign power against us.

When the Jewish state is established - it is very possible that the result will be transfer of Arabs.

By the reduction of the Arabs on the one hand and Jewish immigration in the transition period on the other, we will ensure an absolute Hebrew majority in a parliamentary regime.

An there is always the question: is it really proven that retaliatory actions solve the security problem?.

I have learned that the state of Israel cannot be ruled in our generation without deceit and adventurism. These are historical facts that cannot be altered.